Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Anybody run turrets on a rimfire?

My supplier is superb and will let me return it if it blows but I'm holding out hope that the new one is going to be good.

I hope the best for your project. Please share a pic when your finished sugaring up your new rig.

Will do.

A 6.5-20x40 EFR Target would be badass.

Is the scope of choice for Smallbore Silhouette competitions.
But not a good fit for Nsaqam's fancy Kimber.

Agreed, too big, bulky and heavy for my intended use.

My Kimber won't be fancy compared to some of the amazing works of art I see here but it will be MY fanciest rifle.

Here's my flavor of the month this month--



The turret's actually the std. finger-adjustable commonly seen on the cheaper optics that is resettable after a fashion. Just pull the 2 tiny Phillips remove the black plastic piece, turn the graduated disc to the "0" mark and put it back together again. Works great! This little 2x Barska netted my buddy a 425-yd. 1st shot today actually on a 12" tgt. at a calcd. 90 MOA up from a 50-yd. zero. Although the group was horrendous at that range we got close about 40% of the time--



and 425-yd. youtube [not the 1st shot--missed that opportunity]--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nAlhdi_hB0

I used to, when the little gun club I belonged to had rather informal 22 silhouette shoots. I had a Redfield 10x atop an original Browning T-Bolt.

yuppers, what he said...

I run a couple with Stoney Point Turrets on top...
and a couple with Tascos with Target turrets on top...

I'm sure those don't count tho to most of the 'purists' on the forum here...

but they work for me and Seafire JR...

particularly on my CZ 452 in 22 LR...it allows it to do head shots on a sage rat out to about 125 yds pretty reliably....

head shots are not bang flops... they will bounce around like a fish out of water for a 10 to 20 yd radius for a minute or two...before giving up the ghost...

Here's to the cheaper optics and making them work. This is a 4-16x Centerpoint that'll net me 50 MOA of repeatable UP [and excellent return to zero capability] with this little Chipmunk Hunter, believe it or not. This is the only factory base i've used so far that's thick enough to allow me to shim it [2 credit cards thick] without bending it--

That one of them Walmart Blister Pack $68 scopes, with Rings included??

Yessir, it is. Kinda' my kid and friend long range trainer, as it's a single shot and they shoot it slower. They can still have a fun time and it costs me less...Ha

You know Seafire, i love the mil-dot reticle in it. It's a thin main stadia wire, with 7 mil units in each quadrant with a .2 mil-dot dot that's cald. for 10x and becomes 2.25 IPHY at 16x, calcd. and measured. That also means that at ~14.4x the "mil unit" now becomes 2.5 IPHY between dot centers making the optic sort of a "mil reticle, mil turret system," as explained at the end of this youtube--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEhoNaRi2s

[skip to 4:45 in it]

Extending range on any rifle can be a good idea. Using this setup is almost unfair on ptarmigan as 150 yard first round hits are normal and in good wind 200+ is very doable. FYI she weighs right at 5.5 pounds as pictured and if I'm spinning turrets I prefer a M1 as pictured.

That is awesome!!!

+1

+2, Hey 406 is that a Charger/custom barrel setup? Looks like the 2.5-8x Leupold handgun scope too??

It's a 10/22 rifle with a Volquartsen THM barrel, and a Boyd's stock. The scope is a 3-9 Ultralight with M1 elevation turret. I never thought that the photo was misleading as I simply stuck the buttstock in the snow for the photo--sorry about that guys.

No problem 406, i can see below the pistol grip now. Just looked like a Charger stock a bit.

Don't know if this works or not on a turret thread but this rig is my favorite for longer ranges--

Charger/Kidd barrel/3-9x PFI Rapid Reticle. These dogs were taken to a little beyond 200 yds. with reticle/turret combined. Nice thing about this optic is the low profile tgt. turret that provides an addtl. ~80 MOA of up beyond reticle's 20 MOA 200-yd. line. Windage is nice divided into 1/4ths of 8 MOA either side of vertical axis for the 200 mk.

One of the dogs was taken at 180 in a variable 10 mph x-wind, and hit 3x in a row by just watching the mirage. When it went horizontal i shot using the tip of the 180 windage mk. Couldn't believe it worked so well--

I've used a Leupold 12x for rimfire silhouettes. Also, used a Burris 6X HBR for silhouettes and CMP rimfire matches.


Anyone ever try one of the Bushnell Elites 10X with mil dots and turrets? I thought it might be neat on a .22.